YouTube: Young Boy strip searched by TSA (Original w/ Full Story Description)

Young Boy strip searched by TSA 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQTz1bccL4 

Lets get the facts straight first. Before the video started the boy went through a metal detector and didn't set it off but was selected for a pat down. The boy was shy so the TSA couldn't complete the full pat on the young boy. The father tried several times to just hold the boys arms out for the TSA agent but i guess it didn't end up being enough for the guy. I was about 30 ft away so i couldn't hear their conversation if there was any. The enraged father pulled his son shirt off and gave it to the TSA agent to search, thats when this video begins.

******* THIS VIDEO OCCURRED AT SALT LAKE CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ON NOVEMBER 19TH AT AROUND THE TIME OF 12:00 PM **********

***Insertion of what happened after the video (full story)****

Continued: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQTz1bccL4 

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JetBlue Attendant Held on Bail as Lawyer Cites Abuse on Flight

August 10, 2010, 12:03 PM

JetBlue Attendant Held on Bail as Lawyer Cites Abuse on Flight

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/jetblue-attendant-held-on-bail-as-his-lawyer-offers-details-of-flight/?hp

By ANDY NEWMAN AND MICK MEENAN

Mr. Slater on MySpace.

Updated, 2:18 p.m. | Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who activated an exit chute on a just-landed plane at Kennedy International Airport after a dispute with a passenger Monday and slid to notoriety, did not post the $2,500 bail set by a judge at his arraignment Tuesday morning and remains in custody.

At the arraignment on felony charges of reckless endangerment and criminal mischief in a packed room in the basement of criminal court in Queens, Mr. Slater’s court-appointed lawyer, Howard Turman, said that Mr. Slater’s activation of the slide was not reckless. He said Mr. Slater followed the proper procedure for activating the slide, checking out the window first to make sure no one was on the tarmac who could be struck by it.

Mr. Turman, of the Legal Aid Society, offered an account of the flight, JetBlue 1052 from Pittsburgh, that he said justified Mr. Slater’s actions. He told reporters that on the ground in Pittsburgh, a female passenger had been verbally and physically abusive to Mr. Slater when he intervened as she squabbled with a male passenger over access to the overhead luggage compartment.

“The woman initially at Pittsburgh slammed the overhead into his head,” Mr. Turman said of Mr. Slater... http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/jetblue-attendant-held-on-bail-as-his-lawyer-offers-details-of-flight/?hp

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Pakistani native breezes past TSA

How can a terrorist suspect of Pakistani descent get past TSA more easily than my wheelchair-bound elderly family members?

By Kevin Dayhoff May 5, 2010

Can someone please explain to me why it is so difficult to get my wheelchair-bound 70-some-odd-year-old Mother and my 90-couple-year-old Aunt past Transportation Safety Administration security procedures without being hassled horrendously?

And yet the New York Times Square attempted car bombing terrorist suspect, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, Faisal Shahzad, got on a plane and was on his way down the runway to Dubai before he was arrested?

I’m just asking?

It has been reported that Shahzad purchased his one-way plane ticket at the last minute with cash and had no luggage – and was on the federal "no-fly" list.

An Associated Press account says, “He was in custody after being hauled off a Dubai-bound plane at Kennedy Airport that he had been able to board Monday night despite being placed on the federal "no-fly" list.

“Authorities had planned to arrest Shahzad, who had been under constant watch from mid-afternoon, at his Connecticut home, but lost track of him, two people familiar with the probe told The Associated Press. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk publicly about the breach in surveillance.”

[…]

“Customs and Border Protection officials, who were on the lookout for Shahzad since the early afternoon, recognized his name on the manifest and ordered the flight stopped so they could arrest him. The flight had not left the gate at that point, the official said.

“Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano credited Customs officials with recognizing Shahzad's name on the manifest and stopping the flight. But she had little explanation for how he was able to board the plane with a last-minute ticket.”

And, how in the heck did he find a parking space in Times Square.

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Polish President Lech Kaczynski 'in plane crash'

Polish President Lech Kaczynski 'in plane crash' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8612825.stm

BreakingNews

Update: 87 people dead in Warsaw -Smolesk plane crash - TASS via Reuters

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Polish president's plane crashes in Russia: official: SMOLENSK, Russia (Reuters) - A plane carrying Polish preside... http://bit.ly/8Z8OWt

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Air Marshals Stop Alleged 'Shoe Bomb' Attempt On United Jet to Denver

Air Marshals Stop Alleged 'Shoe Bomb' Attempt On United Jet to Denver

Qatari Diplomat In Custody After Attempting to 'Light Up' His Shoes

By RHONDA SCHWARTZ, RICHARD ESPOSITO, and BRIAN ROSS Apr. 7, 2010

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/air-marshals-stop-shoe-bomb-attempt-united-jet/story?id=10315314

Federal air marshals subdued a man who authorities say attempted to "light his shoes on fire" on a United flight from Washington Reagan to Denver Wednesday night, federal law enforcement officials told ABC News.

Authorities say an explosive team is on the way to the airport, and that while the presence of explosives has not yet been confirmed, they believe it was an attempted "shoe bomb."

The suspect was identified by authorities as a diplomat in the Qatar embassy in Washington, Mohammed al Modadi. The FBI said the man had full diplomat immunity as the 3rd secretary and vice-consul.

[...]

Read the entire story here: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/air-marshals-stop-shoe-bomb-attempt-united-jet/story?id=10315314

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FAA: Pilots can take antidepressants

FAA: Pilots can take antidepressants

Apr 2, 2010

http://www.publicradio.org/columns/marketplace/business-news-briefs/2010/04/faa_pilots.html

The Federal Aviation Administration is set to begin a new policy Monday that will allow some pilots to take antidepressants. The FAA says the policy will improve safety by encouraging pilots who ignore symptoms of depression, or lie about their depression to keep from losing their licenses, to come forward. A six-month amnesty period will also begin for pilots who use antidepressants to come forward without punishment.

From the AP:

Under the new policy, pilots who take one of four antidepressants — Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa or Lexapro or their generic equivalents — will be allowed to fly if they have been successfully treated by those medications for a year without side effects that could pose a safety hazard in the cockpit. The antidepressants are classified as SSRIs, which help regulate mood.

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The Airports You Actually Want To Get Stuck In (PHOTOS)

The World's Best Airports: Skytrax (PHOTOS)

March 29, 2010

This week the British consulting firm Skytrax released its World Airport Awards, an annual ranking of the world's airports.

Now in its eleventh year, the study, which was funded strictly by the research group, surveyed air travelers in more than 38 criteria related to customer satisfaction (including check-in, arrivals and transfers) for more than 190 airports.

And while airports may be generally reviled, there are some standouts, commended by passengers for their cleanliness, efficiency, design and amenities. And with extras that include free massage chairs, internet, a cinema, waterfalls, and, in one truly exceptional case, a butterfly garden, who can blame them?

Check out a quick list of the world's top five airports -- and the reasons travelers love them so much -- and vote for the ones you'd most like to get stuck in (if you were to get stuck!) below:

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Washington Post: Nominee to head TSA quits pursuit of job

The Washington Post is reporting: "Robert Harding, President Obama's second nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration, withdrew his name from consideration Friday night because of questions over his background as a defense contractor, the Associated Press reports. In January, Erroll Southers withdrew from consideration for the TSA job over different issues."

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The WORST Airports In America

The WORST Airports In America: J.D. Power (PHOTOS) March 2, 2010

According to the latest evaluation of the nation's airports, America's fliers are mostly a truly disgruntled bunch.

They survey, conducted by J.D. Power and Associates, asked customers to report their satisfaction levels on six factors (airport accessibility, baggage claim, check-in, terminal facilities, security check and food and retail services), which they measured by asking about 27 more specific attributes.

And overall, the results were pretty bleak. J.D. Power says that while airport customer satisfaction is up slightly over 2008 levels, it still lags well behind customer satisfaction in other key travel categories, such as hotels and rental cars.

Large airports, for their part, have experienced a marked decline in customer satisfaction over the last several years, according to J.D. Power. Medium-size airports, by contrast, have seen little change, while customer satisfaction at small airports has risen.

But it's not all bad: even among the large airports, there were some stand-outs. Five large airports -- Denver, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Orlando, Phoenix, and Charlotte -- earned very high overall satisfaction scores, and with a customer satisfaction rating of 705 (out of 1,000), Detroit topped the list.

Nonetheless, we compiled a list of the airports that J.D. Power reports have the lowest customer satisfaction scores. Check out the list of the ten airports you should do your best to avoid: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/the-worst-airports-in-ame_n_482092.html#s71710

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The Tentacle : Spontaneous Incompetence by Kevin E. Dayhoff January 13, 2010

Spontaneous Incompetence by Kevin E. Dayhoff January 13, 2010

http://www.thetentacle.com/ http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3554

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/01/tentacle-spontaneous-incompetence-by.html

In an incident, almost totally ignored by the dominant United States major news media, comes word that an American hero, the renown Army Green Beret-turned-Iraq/Afghanistan war correspondent, Michael Yon, was “arrested” January 5 as he entered the country for failing to disclose his income.

No, as unbelievable as it may seem, I am not making this up.

The news comes barely 10 days after a 23-year-old Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was essentially given a pass by authorities to fly about the country, as a result of bureaucratic bungling of byzantine proportions, with a bomb in his pants which he planned to kill nearly 300 airplane passengers on Christmas Day.

It is in this context that Mr. Yon, the award-winning American combat-journalist, wrote on his Facebook page at 11:05 A.M. January 5:

“Got arrested at the Seattle airport for refusing to say how much money I make... Their videos and audios should show that I was polite, but simply refused questions that had nothing to do with national security….”

[…]

According to Aleksandra Kulczuga, writing for the web publication, The Daily Caller, [http://dailycaller.com/] Mr. Yon said: “I was caught off-guard by the question [about my income]…” Yon, an American citizen traveling on an American passport, said he cooperated fully when asked standard security questions about what was in his suitcase: “I was on better-than-normal behavior.”

[…]

For those who are not familiar with Mr. Yon, there is no better place to start than with his web publication, “Michael Yon Online Magazine,” http://www.michaelyon-online.com/...

[…]

Read the rest of the column here: Spontaneous Incompetence by Kevin E. Dayhoff January 13, 2010 http://www.thetentacle.com/ http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3554

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Unbelievable: Renown Iraq/Afghan war correspondent Michael Yon “arrested” Jan 5 by US Customs http://tinyurl.com/ycmawvq

kevindayhoff @TheDailyCaller Unbelievable: Renown Iraq/Afghan war correspondent Michael Yon “arrested” Jan 5 by US Customs http://tinyurl.com/ycmawvq

The Tentacle : Spontaneous Incompetence by Kevin E. Dayhoff January 13, 2010

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/01/tentacle-spontaneous-incompetence-by.html

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Breitbart on Hannity: Yon, Obama, TSA and national security

Andrew Breitbart: Obama Took a Surfboard Accident With a Kid More Seriously Than Underwear Bomber

January 5, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adURxXmCOJE

Andrew Breitbart was on with Sean Hannity tonight to discuss Obama's national security policies. Andrew pointed out that Obama took a surfboard accident in Hawaii more seriously than the underwear...



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Detail from “The Dulles (airport) travelers

Detail from “The Dulles (airport) travelers” February 28, 2009 Kevin Dayhoff

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[20090228 Detail from The Dulles travelers]

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The Dulles travelers

“The Dulles travelers” February 28, 2009 Kevin Dayhoff

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Full body airport images not pretty By Damon Sims

Full-body airport images not pretty, but not p*rn

By Damon Sims

August 04, 2009, 10:50PM

When I heard that Cleveland's airport was one of only three in the country to try out the latest full-body image scanners at security checks, my reaction was swift: Ew. After seeing images of real humans on the scanner screens, I've modified my response: Ew. Ew. Look, I don't know how else to put this: It ain't pretty. Even the... Full story »

http://www.cleveland.com/schultz/index.ssf/2009/08/fullbody_airport_scanners_tell.html

20090804 sdsom Full body airport images not pretty By Damon Sims

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Prague's Kafka International Named Most Alienating Airport

Prague's Kafka International Named Most Alienating Airport

March 24, 2009 (Hat Tip: TJ)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ

Business Week ranked the airport last in customer satisfaction due to long delays, bureaucratic employees, and overall oppressive atmosphere.



20090324 SDOSM Prague Kafka International Named Most Alienating Airport

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The adventures of Mr Moose

The adventures of Mr Moose

February 16, 2009

The adventures of Mr Moose

Mr. Moose stops for a photo op as the intrepid traveler boards a Boeing 717-200.

Mr. Moose took no questions, however, was overheard to remark how much the traveling moose does not like cold weather and winter, and yearns to be in a warm clime soon.

All questions were referred to his publicist.

20090216 SDOSM The adventures of Mr Moose

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Flying out to St. Paul Minnesota to cover the Republican National Convention

Flying out to St. Paul Minnesota to cover the Republican National Convention

(c) Kevin Dayhoff

3:37 PM EST Sunday August 31 2008

It’s Sunday August 31, 2008 and my wife and I are celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary by flying out to Saint Paul, Minnesota for the Republican National Convention.

That is, of course, if the convention takes place. It appears that Mother Nature may have a say about that… I haven’t had the time to get a weather report today. However all indications are that Hurricane Gustav will making landfall to the west of New Orleans sometime on Monday.

Depending of the strength and severity of the storm and any resulting damage - - it will not be appropriate for presidential candidates to be partying on dry land far from harm’s way.

So, we’ll see.

I’m attempting to work on an airplane and I’m not finding it easy. I swear that it was easier – either years ago or when I was younger. I wonder which?

I’m flying Northwest and when we checked in we discovered that there was a $15.00 per bag fee for our luggage, which took us by surprise. I sure hope that I can later reflect upon the newly initiated luggage fee as an insurance policy so that we don’t land, after a two-hour flight, in Minneapolis St. Paul and our luggage lands in Singapore or Pyongyang, Korea.

Our A319 plane is full. Does “A319” mean that this is an “Airbus?”

Of course. For whatever reason, it seems that whenever my wife and fly anywhere, we always sit behind really important people who simply must recline their seat as far back as possible so that the headrest of the seat ahead of me is resting upon my chin.

Oh joy.

A colleague, who had attended the Democrat National Convention, blogged the event. I’ll be curious if I will be able to do that for the Republican National Convention, in the next several days. A quick review of the schedule reveals only a begrudging moment or two for a minimum amount of sleep and non-stop activity throughout everyday.

And speaking of sleeping; that is how, for now, I will attempt to Zen the remaining hour of this flight.

4:05 PM EST

20080831 Flying to St Paul Minnesota Sunday August 31 2008

Related:

20051005 Three Tentacle columns on Hurricane Katrina

2005 Aug 23-30 2005 Hurricane Katrina

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082803165.html?hpid=topnews

20080829 Washington Post GOP Considers Delaying Convention

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2008/08/washington-post-gop-considers-delaying.html

National Geographic: Hurricane Gustav to Become Gulf Coast Monster?

20080825 Hurricane Gustav formed Aug 25

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20080827 National Geographic: Hurricane Gustav to Become Gulf Coast Monster?

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2008/08/national-geographic-hurricane-gustav-to.html

Washington Post GOP Considers Delaying Convention

20071227 AP: Rare 1918 Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” 24-cent stamp sold

AP: Rare 1918 Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” 24-cent stamp sold

The stamp collector in me could not help but notice an Associated Press article by an auction house that reports that it has sold a rare 24-cent inverted JN-4 Curtiss Jenny stamp for $825,000…

Auction House Says New York Executive Purchases Rare 24-Cent 'Inverted Jenny' Stamp for $825,000

Thursday, December 27, 2007

AP File: A rare 24-cent stamp from 1918 depicting an upside-down airplane, the Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny," is shown.

DALLAS — A collector from New York has purchased a rare 24-cent stamp depicting an upside-down airplane for $825,000, according to an online auction house.

[…]

The 1918 stamp depicts a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny," a World War I training aircraft that became an airmail plane. About 700 of the stamps were misprinted, but inspectors caught all of but 100 before they were sold.

[…]

Read the entire article here: 20071227 AP: Rare 1918 Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” 24-cent stamp sold

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20071030 Commentary - Irwin Stelzer: Airlines that Dickens would love and hate

Commentary - Irwin Stelzer: Airlines that Dickens would love and hate

Posted November 1, 2007

Every time you think that flying and airports – and airport security could not get worse – it always seems to manage to get more unpleasant…

Bring back to the future an emphasis on passenger train transportation – please…

Irwin Stelzer: Airlines that Dickens would love and hate

Irwin Stelzer, The Examiner, 2007-10-30

WASHINGTON -

It is the best of times, it is the worst of times — best of times for America’s airlines, worst of times for the passengers they are cramming into their airplanes.

The airlines are making money despite delays and horrible service. The reason: After a wave of chastening bankruptcies, they have cut capacity, bringing the number of available seats more into line with demand and reducing the scramble to peddle empty seats at any price above the almost zero cost of carrying an additional passenger.

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If lines lengthen at security checkpoints, no one has an incentive to add staff or open more lanes. By contrast, such a situation at Whole Foods, Giant or any respectable supermarket results in the opening of more check-out lines to relieve congestion.

Store managers have an incentive to prevent customers from taking their business elsewhere; airport managers don’t, or think they don’t. Indeed, they have every incentive to keep costs down and profits up, even if that means providing a miserable service.

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Gordon Bethune, former chief executive officer of Continental Airlines, once commented on reductions in the quality of service that “You can take so much cheese off the pizza that nobody will eat it.” Perhaps. But for now the skimpy pizza is the only food on offer.

Examiner columnist Irwin Stelzer is a senior fellow and director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Economic Studies.

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20071001 CBS/AP: Travel: Lose Your Cares, Luggage, Sanity

Travel: Lose Your Cares, Luggage, Sanity

Airline Fashion Cops, Missing Suitcases And Runway Rage; In 2007, Consumers Said "Enough"

Oct. 1, 2007

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(CBS/AP) For the thousands of passengers who spent hours stuck on runways, on crowded planes, staring at signs that quickly flashed from "on time" to "delayed" to "cancelled," 2007, was the year that time stood still.

This was the year air rage became part of the traveling lexicon and being successfully reunited with one's luggage became more wishful thinking then an expected occurrence. Once you were unsure if the airlines would search your bags for contraband contact lens solution. Now your too-sexy clothes may get you booted off a plane.

And it wasn't just the airlines who were behaving badly. According to the The Wall Street Journal American Airlines told the Transportation Security Administration in July that a passenger on a flight to New York had slapped a flight attendant when the plane was ordered emptied in Miami after bad weather kept the flight from leaving.

"Abnormal, aberrant or abusive behavior in the context of the air-travel experience" is back with a vengeance, Andrew Thomas, an assistant professor of business at the University of Akron, who has written books about air rage and aviation "insecurity," told the Journal.

More than 1 million pieces of luggage were lost, damaged, delayed or pilfered by U.S. airlines from May to July, according to data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, reports the Washington Post.

June and July ranked among the 20 worst months for mishandled baggage in 20 years.

The year started out bad and only got worse.

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Then, a harsh winter storm back in February triggered hundreds of flight delays. JetBlue suffered a terrible blow to its customer-friendly public image when ticket holders were stuck on the tarmac for nearly 11 hours. The airline weathered the storm but not before the incident sparked a new wave of consumer advocates and proposed guidelines that ideally guarantee the weary traveler "clean sanitary facilities, regardless of class of service" and truthful information regarding delays and flight status.

The summer was no better with problems piling upon cancellations. The nation's seven busiest airports now account for 72 percent of the nation's flight delays.

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Read the entire article here: Travel: Lose Your Cares, Luggage, Sanity

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/01/travel/main3314904.shtml

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